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Especially when you have a passionate community willing to work for free to preserve things, am I right?

I had shoulder pain about ten years ago. Had an MRI. Found evidence of a tear. Was told I would need surgery and referred to a sports medicine doctor. He looked at my MRI and said the real problem was…

The rhetoric around AI has been insane for years now. AI will kill us all. AI will take all our jobs. SaaS is dead. AI is too dangerous to even release. It's really no surprise at all voters hate…

I've never heard of the Doorman Fallacy before. I like it. That said, not everything changes because some businessman wants to cut costs. Splitting bills has always been a pain, and while a lot o…

If you think any attempt at a solve goes immediately to 11, sure, but I hope you believe in nuance or else we’re all lost.

That sounds like a great idea, but I think we should also try to solve human trafficking online.

I think the lie is to look at the problems we have that the internet has enabled and say "things are ok as they are don't try to do anything to solve it."

I'm pretty sure this is a "pick your poison" problem. We as a society are damned no matter what we do or do not do. For my part, we need to do something, because things are not fine the…

This takes me back. In the 90s there wasn't exactly a lot of web app programming going on, and it was hard to find a web host willing to let you run scripts through CGI. This was my first introdu…

I wonder how much of the knee-jerk cynicism comes down to it being Midjourney doing this in a way where it feels like "practicing medicine without a license." The irony is I believe that if …

I used the roundabout the game is modeled after the other day. This is at the freeway exit used to get to the Costco AND downtown in Kirkland. I've seen pileups here for no reason. It's insa…

I was responsible for overseeing a Sierra AI implementation to replace our tier 1 support bot, which was not AI but a basic heuristic bot. Containment from the bot alone shot up past 50%. Customer sat…

I wouldn't say so. Once upon a time, a PlayStation 2 was too powerful to export: https://www.pcmag.com/news/20-years-later-how-concerns-about... ChatGPT 2 was once too power…

This is a new form of Gell-Mann Amnesia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect …

I tend to agree. My first reaction to this post was to check the date, because I would have assumed this had been published around 2014. Google's moral compass was gone long before this man even …

I'll give my own interpretation, which is different from the parent though maybe we arrive at the same place. Blindsight dismantles a lot of noble myths about what it means to be human and human …

No one has ever made me feel horror and despair like Peter Watts. His books stare directly into the abyss. I think it's what makes the hope you feel at the end seem earned. If you haven't re…

I suspect it'll go on the subscription plan once other providers have similar benchmarks. As annoyed as I am about this move, I get it. Users flood the newest, best model whether they really need…

I get the impression Apple designers don't actually use AI, and so have no idea what to build, since users don't know what they want from AI yet either.

I wish the Christians would hurry up and get here

Building a henge, are we?

They tried with OpenAI and that deal fell apart. My hunch is that they're considering their own device play given they brought Jony Ive on board. Anthropic doesn't have the spare compute lay…

I don't think this was author-submitted. The last github commit was 10 months ago. It's ancient by AI standards.

Thanks. At this point, I believe it's what I will look back on as my legacy. Software is ephemeral, but the people you build it with are what shape how you reflect on it.

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Shoutout to the author. I don't think I've met you, but I'm proud of you. What you've done is not easy. Neither is talking about it. I've not had nearly the adversity of the a…

I think my favorite early story was when OpenAI launched deep research. I was going to an event that I was headlining, and I gave it a CSV of the attendees and asked it to give me a small background o…

My issue with saying socializing is one of the primary goals is that schools leave kids to figure it out on their own. Hard to know how schools are performing at that goal when it is going unmeasured.